Watching RTE in US, UK or anywhere Outside Ireland

I have had a few emails asking me if it is possible to use Identity Cloaker to watch various other media stations apart from the ones I've tested. So I thought I'd try a few out, the one I'm trying here is accessing a station called RTE player which is an Irish TV Channel. I thought I'd test this channel as Identity Cloaker have recently added some Irish Proxy servers to their network.  Remember the beauty of this program is that is does everything and more than the standard TV watching Websites, plus they don't get the legal challenges those websites get routinely (and then they suddenly disappear!)

So here goes, can anonymous surfing allow me access.

Can you Watch RTE in the UK or US ?

Well first of all I had to test it, I tried to access RTE from the UK first but without much luck. Here's the screen I got.  As you can see it detected  that I wasn't trying to access from the Republic or Northern Ireland by my IP address and so blocked my access.


Not a great surprise, seemingly everything you do online nowadays is tailored to your location and crucially your IP address.

Although this is very annoying if you happen to be living or working abroad. The person who asked me to access this was a student from Ireland studying in the US, she just wanted to watch the Late Show on RTE.

Anyway now I have a chance to access the same page after connecting to an Irish proxy through Identity Cloaker.

You can see the front screen of the program here, it just sits in your task bar and you can either let the program select a proxy to use automatically or you can select  the appropriate country that you need.

Of course if I'm just surfing anonymously, which country is not that important, but to bypass the IP restrictions of most media sites online you have to select the right country.  So for BBC you need a UK server, Hulu and US stations need a US server and so on.   The network is growing fast so you have access to a lot of the worlds media now with this program.

You can see some of the proxies that are available, there are a lot more than that but I picked a screen showing the new Irish Proxy IP addresses.

(Sorry had to obscure the IP addresses)

The program is very simple to use so I just select an Irish Proxy server and then I'll retry connecting to the RTE player web site.

You'll need to restart your browser when you  connect through a proxy server as you need to supply your login details to Identity Cloaker.


So I select an Irish proxy and restarted my browser.   You can see the change straight away, what you see is decided by your IP address, my home page has switched to Google.IE and all my search results would now be based on Irish results.

This would happen whilst I was connected to
the Irish proxy by default.  But what I wanted to check was if I still got blocked from the RTE Player web site.

Well I went to the RTE player web site and it worked straight away,  here's the same web page as above when I accessed via the Irish proxy server.

Here you can see I was able to access the RTE player with no restrictions because it believed I had an Irish IP address.  I was actually fairly surprised this worked so easily, lots of the media sites now need more than a simple proxy and you need to connect via something called a VPN which you can also use from within Identity Cloaker.

One of the main advantages I have found using the straight forward proxy mode, is that you can actually disconnect from the Identity Cloaker server after the programme you are watching has started.   This often means the programme will stream more quickly depending on your connection speed.

It also means that if you have access to an Irish proxy server yourself, then you could connect through that to watch RTE.  Anyway if you are interested in watching RTE in the US, UK or anywhere outside Ireland - I can thoroughly recommend Identity Cloaker, they have an inexpensive 10 day trial you can test if you prefer - here.  

Don't forget if you switch countries you can access virtually any other media site anywhere in the world, I'd recommend BBC Iplayer and Hulu for a start.

I've done a quick video on accessing RTE player as apparently my description was a bit confusing :)